"Health Care Reform" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.
| Descriptor ID |
D018166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.655.500.608.400.285 I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 N03.349.285 N03.623.500.608.428.285 N04.590.374.285 N05.300.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Care Reform- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reforms
- Reform, Health Care
- Reforms, Health Care
- Healthcare Reform
- Healthcare Reforms
- Reform, Healthcare
- Reforms, Healthcare
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Reform" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 37 | 14 | 51 |
| 2018 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2020 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity for Universal Health Coverage. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:673542.
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Will the COVID-19 crisis catalyse universal health reforms? Lancet. 2021 08 21; 398(10301):646-648.
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Healthcare decision making should be democratised. BMJ. 2021 05 19; 373:n1225.
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Post-covid reforms: can we avoid fighting the last war? BMJ. 2021 05 19; 373:n1184.
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Learning From COVID-19: System Blindness to Primary Care. Ann Fam Med. 2021 May-Jun; 19(3):282-284.
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Changes in US Medicaid Enrollment During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 05 03; 4(5):e219463.
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A Thoughtful Rebirth of Health Care: Lessons From the Pandemic. Ann Fam Med. 2021 May-Jun; 19(3):274-276.
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"Top-Three" health reforms in 31 high-income countries in 2018 and 2019: an expert informed overview. Health Policy. 2021 07; 125(7):815-832.
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Why is repositioning public health innovation towards a social paradigm necessary? A reflection on the field of public health through the examples of Ebola and Covid-19. Global Health. 2021 04 14; 17(1):46.
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Problems with traffic light approaches to public health emergencies of international concern. Lancet. 2021 05 15; 397(10287):1856-1858.